Montreal-born writer Mavis Gallant dies

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Associated Press • Tuesday February 18, 2014 11:34 AM

TORONTO -- A Canadian publishing house says Mavis Gallant, the Montreal-born writer who carved
out an international reputation as a master short-story author while living in Paris for decades,
has died at age 91.

The bilingual Anglophone published more than 100 short stories in her lauded career, many of
them in the New Yorker magazine and in collections such as
The Other Paris,
Across the Bridge and
In Transit. She also wrote two novels,
Green Water,
Green Sky and
A Fairly Good Time, as well as the play
What is to be Done?

Although she lived abroad, Gallant received several high-profile honors at home, including a
Companion of the Order of Canada and a Governor General's Literary Award for her story collection,
Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories.